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SMART-1's image of the Aitkin Basin on the Moon

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Title SMART-1's image of the Aitkin Basin on the Moon

Released 24/04/2003 3:21 pm

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Near the Moon's south pole is the South Pole - Aitken Basin, the largest known impact crater in the entire Solar System. Coloured blue in this topographic map, it is 2500 kilometres wide and up to 12 kilometres deep.